{
  "added_at": "2026-11-08",
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "mc4.sav documents the save format written by the Midnight Club: Los Angeles recompiled PC runtime. It maps big-endian section records, career values, garage slots and performance-upgrade bytes from observed saves, and supplies a browser editor and PowerShell commands for inspecting and changing supported fields.",
  "description_zh": "mc4.sav 记录 Midnight Club: Los Angeles 重编译 PC 运行时写出的存档格式。项目根据实际存档解析大端序分节记录、职业数据、车库车位和性能升级字节，并提供浏览器编辑器与 PowerShell 命令来查看和修改已知字段。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/mcla-save-editor-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mcla-save-editor-case/",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/onlyzennnn/mcla-save-editor/blob/356d055770997010f631f651d14b6f58d0abec0f/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "mcla-save-editor-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/mcla-save-editor-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/mcla-save-editor-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mcla-save-editor-case/index.md",
  "name": "mc4.sav: reconstructing the Midnight Club: Los Angeles save format",
  "name_zh": "mc4.sav：还原 Midnight Club: Los Angeles 存档格式",
  "reconstruction_method": "other",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
    "limits",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "The tools expect a plain mc4.sav produced by the MC_LA_Recompiled runtime; Xbox 360 saves must first be extracted from STFS.",
    "Close the game before editing; the tools reject files whose structure fails validation.",
    "Visual customization in garage slots has not been decoded.",
    "MIT License."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "工具需要 MC_LA_Recompiled 运行时生成的原始 mc4.sav 文件；Xbox 360 存档须先从 STFS 中提取。",
    "编辑前应关闭游戏；结构验证失败的文件会被工具拒绝。",
    "车库车位中的外观定制数据尚未解码。",
    "采用 MIT 许可证。"
  ],
  "targets": [
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/onlyzennnn/mcla-save-editor",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
}